| | | | For a minute, "La La Land" was the Best Picture. Faye Dunaway made the announcement, so it had to be true, right? But confusion enveloped the stage... because Dunaway's co-presenter Warren Beatty apparently opened the wrong envelope... One of the "La La Land" winners pointed out that, in fact, "Moonlight" had won the prize.
"There's a mistake! 'Moonlight,' you guys won best picture."
"This is not a joke. This is not a joke!" | | | Cue the "La La Land" truthers... | | So many Q's for the morning shows: Who handed Beatty the wrong envelope? Who's the crew member who came out on stage to sort it out? What were the "Moonlight" stars feeling? What were the "La La Land" producers thinking? What happened after the speeches when everyone went backstage? | | | "Moonlight" mishap overshadows the political talk | | Drudge banners: "SERMONS FROM LA LA LAND." Variety wonders: "Most Political Oscars Ever?" But ultimately this wasn't an evening about President Trump or politics. This was an evening about how Hollywood sees itself -- a diverse city of stars, city of dreamers... | | -- Brian Lowry emails: The centerpiece of an awards season punctuated by politics repeatedly addressed the current moment, albeit more in flashes than any sustained manner... Jimmy Kimmel proved a helpful choice given the polarized climate, someone who brought a light touch to his satire – acknowledging partisan division and poking at President Trump without seeming mean-spirited – and an overall silliness to the proceedings... | | Best Picture: "Moonlight," NOT "La La Land"
Actor: Casey Affleck, "Manchester by the Sea"
Actress: Emma Stone, "La La Land"
Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, "Moonlight"
Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, "Fences"
Animated Feature: "Zootopia"
Cinematography: "La La Land"
Direction: Damien Chazelle, "La La Land"
Documentary Feature: "O.J.: Made in America"
Documentary Short: "The White Helmets"
Film Editing: "Hacksaw Ridge"
Foreign Language Film: "The Salesman"
Score: "La La Land"
Song: "City of Stars" from "La La Land"
Adapted Screenplay: "Moonlight"
Original Screenplay: "Manchester by the Sea"
The complete list is over on CNN.com... | | BEFORE THE "MOONLIGHT" MOMENT: There was good energy in the Kodak Theatre... Most (though not all) of Kimmel's jokes landed well... Kimmel told Sandra Gonzalez last week that his advice from Billy Crystal was to play to the room – so by that measure, Kimmel had a good night, entertainment editor Megan Thomas notes...
-- Bill Carter's assessment: "Pretty great monologue from Mr. Kimmel. Congrats to him. He stepped up to the challenge and nailed it..."
AFTER THE "MOONLIGHT" MOMENT: Kimmel repeatedly said he'd take the fall for the Best Picture fiasco, but I think it was clear to the viewing audience that he had nothing to do with it... This'll make Monday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" more entertaining, though, that's for sure... | | | The director who wasn't there | | CNN's Delaney Strunk writes: Director Asghar Farhadi won his second Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday, but he was not in attendance. He boycotted the awards show... In a prepared speech delivered by Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari, he explained, "My absence is out of respect for the people of my country." Farhadi called Trump's travel ban "inhumane..."
-- Key quote: Filmmakers "create empathy between us and others. An empathy which we need today more than ever." | | "At 7 hours and 47 minutes, the Oscar nomination for 'O.J. Simpson: Made in America' sparked a controversy about the fine line between a movie and a TV show," the LATimes noted. Sunday night's victory made ESPN an Oscar-winning network.
-- John Skipper in a companywide memo: "I imagine many would have scoffed at the idea that ESPN would be taken seriously in the Academy Award conversation but now it is a reality..."
-- ESPN2 will be running the doc in its entirety this week... | | In the short doc category for "The White Helmets." The film is streaming here...
-- An hour after this win, Google said "The White Helmets" was the top trending search in the USA...
-- Here's why the cinematographer, Khaled Khatib, was unable to attend the ceremony... | | (Noticing a trend?) With Jeff Bezos in the audience, Amazon Studios' "Manchester by the Sea" picked up best original screenplay and "The Salesman" won best foreign-language film... | | | A milestone for Muslims in Hollywood | | Mahershala Ali, the first winner of the night, is also the "first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award," according to Variety and other Hollywood trades... | | | About that Cadillac commercial... | | "We are a nation divided. That's what they tell us, right? This chasm between us. But what they don't tell you, what doesn't make the news is this..."
That's how Cadillac's ad began. The ad made "an inspiring, full-throated case for the greatness of America," IJR's Jason Howerton writes. It will win awards at future shows... Watch it here on YouTube... | | Hilarious? Offensive? Predictable? Elitist? Ingenious? Awkward? What'd you think of the tour bus crowd touring the Dolby Theatre on live TV? If you missed the stunt, here's the video via Mediaite. NYMag says "Tour Bus Gary" is an instant viral star...
-- Chloe Melas on CNN's live blog: "It was hands down the best Oscars stunt I've ever seen..." | | NYT's Valeriya Safronova writes: The accessory of the night at the Oscars is not a shiny designer clutch or a strappy stiletto. It's a blue ACLU ribbon." Details... | | | -- Stephanie Elam, Bill Carter and I will all be on "New Day" bright and early Monday morning with post-show coverage... 6 a.m. ET... | | -- ABC's "GMA" will be live from Hollywood... But its arch-rival "Today" has a surprise... Savannah Guthrie is coming back from maternity leave a few days earlier than expected... NBC originally said she'd be back on Friday, March 3, but now she's returning on Monday... | | | Media week ahead calendar | | Monday morning: Matt Lauer interviews George W. Bush on "Today..."
Monday: The Mobile World Congress begins in Barcelona...
Monday night: ABC premieres "When We Rise..."
Tuesday morning: POTUS on "Fox & Friends..."
Tuesday night: The president's prime time address...
Wednesday after the bell: Snap reveals its IPO price...
Friday: Nintendo Switch hits stores... | | | Leaks about a W.H. leak investigation | | Dylan Byers reports: Sean Spicer recently checked his aides' cell phones to ensure they weren't communicating with reporters as part of an aggressive effort to stem the recent tide of White House leaks... Spicer asked to review both his staff's government-issued and personal cell phones, the sources said... He also specifically asked his staff not to leak information about the meeting or his efforts to crack down on leaks to the media, one source said...
Politico's Annie Karni and Alex Isenstadt broke the news on Sunday afternoon. Spicer declined to comment... | | | Politico v. White House via Washington Examiner | | In the aforementioned Politico story, Isenstadt reported that "the mood has grown tense" within the press office. "During a recent staff meeting, Spicer harshly criticized some of the work deputy comms director Jessica Ditto had done, causing her to cry, according to two people familiar with the incident." Spicer denied that account, telling Isenstadt that "the only time Jessica recalls almost getting emotional is when we had to relay the information on the death of Chief Ryan Owens." After the story came out, anonymous White House officials told the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard that "Isenstadt appeared dismissive and laughed at Spicer's answer." Politico, in turn, denied that account... And Bedard was criticized by other journos for granting anonymity for that claim... | | On Sunday's "Reliable Sources" I asked NYT executive editor Dean Baquet, is President Trump the best thing to ever happen to the NYT's subscription sales strategy? Yes, Baquet said -- "every time he tweets, it drives subscriptions wildly."
Baquet told me the NYT's mission is now "clearer than it's ever been." Read/watch more here...
-- More from the interview: Baquet justifying the use of anonymous sourcing... He says "these are people who are worried about the direction of the government..."
| | You probably spotted it during the telecast -- the NYT's new ad campaign about "truth." On Sunday morning we previewed the ad on "New Day." Trump tweeted about it eight minutes later. Coincidence? You decide... | | | Supporters rally outside NYT HQ | | About a hundred people gathered outside the NYT building on Sunday morning for a pro-NYT rally. Some of the signs: "GO FACT YOURSELF," "FREE THE PRESS," "SPEAK TRUTH." NYT's Michael Barbaro posted a bunch of pictures, including this one: | | It's not surprising that POTUS is skipping the White House Correspondents' Dinner. But it's sorta surprising that he announced it out of nowhere, in a tweet, two months before the event... | | | What'll happen with W.H. briefings this week? We'll see... | | Will news outlets like CNN and the NYT be excluded from briefings? | | WSJ's Bret Stephens didn't mince words on Sunday's show: "I would call it Nixonian, except I think that would be unfair to the memory of President Nixon. This is an attempt to bully the press by using access as a weapon to manipulate coverage... If the administration will try to boycott certain news outlets, then perhaps we should, as news organizations, return the favor to this administration..." | | "My brother, he's 20 years old, he's in college, and he read that Politico was blocked from the briefing. He asked me, 'Are you fake news?' I mean, the fact that he's wondering what's real and what's not is a problem. The fact that people are confused -- is what's the problem right now."
--Politico's Tara Palmeri on Sunday's "Reliable Sources..." | | | The real definition of "fake news" | | To Palmeri's point, I tried to address the difference between the media industry's definition of "fake news" and the White House's definition of "fake news" in this essay on Sunday's show.
Over the weekend at #MisInfoCon, a summit all about misinformation, Claire Wardle of the First Draft Coalition showed this graphic -- a spectrum of seven types of mis/disinformation -- ranging from "satire" to "fabricated content..." Check it out... | | A better way to fact-check | | World-renowned linguist George Lakoff on Sunday's show: "If you just negate what he's saying, you're going to just strengthen him." He was talking about Trump, but this idea applies to other politicians too.
"The very fact of repeating a falsehood in proclaiming it as incorrect can actually have the opposite effect in terms of informing the public," the professor said.
Via CNN's Alexandra King, who summed up the interview: The better tactic is for journalists to "frame" fact checking by immediately pointing out that "Trump is diverting attention from real issues ... like his foreign policy, like his business connections and on and on." Journalists should "talk first about the truth, that he's diverting attention from, the real issues..." | | | Tom Kludt interviews Bill Mitchell | | Tom Kludt emails: At CPAC on Friday morning, I chatted with Bill Mitchell for about a half-hour. For those well-versed in political/media Twitter, Mitchell needs no introduction. He came out of nowhere during last year's campaign, and suddenly he was everywhere... Read all about him here... | | Now back to the Oscars... | | Chloe Melas emails: Viola Davis won her first Oscar for "Fences," and her speech was Oscar-worthy. An excerpt from the passionate and tearful speech:
"People ask me all the time, 'What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?' And I say, exhume those bodies, exhume those stories. The stories of the people who dream big and never saw those dreams to fruition. People who fell in love and lost... I became an artist and thank God I did, because we are the only profession who celebrates what it means to live a life. So here's to August Wilson who exhumed and examined the ordinary people..." | | "Moana" star shows how it's done | | Auli'i Cravalho was whacked in the head by a flag during her Oscar performance... But she kept on singing... | | ICYMI: Jon Stewart to return to "Late Show" Monday | | Frank Pallotta writes: Jon Stewart will return to "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Monday night. This will be the second time the former host of "The Daily Show" has appeared on Colbert's CBS broadcast since President Trump took office... | | "Get Out" exceeded all expectations | | Brian Lowry emails: Setting aside the Oscars for a moment, the big winner of the weekend is Jordan Peele. Not only were the reviews of his directorial debut "Get Out" glowing, but the $30 million opening weekend exceeded all expectations. And the interest in whatever he does next is instantly off the charts... | | | What do you like about this newsletter? What do you dislike? Send your feedback to reliablesources@cnn.com. We appreciate every email. See you tomorrow... | |  | | We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out Five Things for Your New Day, CNN's morning newsletter. Give us five minutes, and we'll brief you on all the news and buzz people will be talking about. | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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